Aamir Khan wasn’t satisfied with PK until the end, had to change story after Inception released: ‘I told Raju tu bhool ja usne same banaya hai’ 

Aamir said that there were multiple revisions to the film, and they actually rewrote and reshot a few portions. “We spoke and we discussed before the release that ‘Raju, we haven’t been able to make the film we wanted’. I wasn’t fully happy and he wasn’t either. We weren’t fully happy with the film, but this was the best version we could think of. But people connected with the film, and they liked it. But we were not happy till the end. We couldn’t figure out what else to do,” he said and added that at one point, he tried to convince Hirani that he should forget about Inception.

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“I told Raju that you forget that Nolan has made the same thing. Because then, you can’t say what you want to say with conviction. Let people say we have copied Inception, we will say we haven’t. Every film is unique. Sometimes concepts match but someone like Raju, will have his own take on it. I told him not to change. He said no we have to,” said Aamir. If Inception was one obstacle, the other roadblock came from Akshay Kumar and Paresh Rawal-starrer OMG – Oh My God. “There were a few similarities with OMG too. There were similarities because both films dealt with the same theme. But Raju was steadfast that certain portions had to be rewritten to avoid any comparisons with OMG,” said Aamir.

Incidentally, in an earlier interview, Hirani spoke about this Inception connect, and shared with Komal Nahta, “PK had the power of getting into people’s minds and changing what they had experienced in their life. Because we felt, you become cynical about certain things if you have experienced life in a particular way. So if your experience can change, your cynicism will not be there, you become a different person. So we had gone on that path. So we realised if you do this, it will look like we have copied Inception.”

PK, which was released in 2014, starred Anushka Sharma, Sanjay Dutt, Saurabh Shukla, and Sushant Singh Rajput in pivotal roles. On the acting front, Aamir, who has been on a sabbatical since Laal Singh Chaddha, will return to the big screen Sitaare Zameen Par, that will release later this year.